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Ummah (Islam)

LC control no.sh 97000155
Topical headingUmmah (Islam)
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Variant(s)Umma (Islam)
See alsoIslam
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Islam and state
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Scope noteHere are entered works on the concept of the Islamic community of believers as a whole, which transcends ethnic or political boundaries, and sometimes includes the idea of an Islamic state ruled by Islamic law.
Found inWork cat.: 91-941429: Djaka Soetapa. Concept of the Ummah according to the glorious Qurʼān in the context of Indonesian Society, 1991.
Glassé, C. Concise encyc. Islam, 1991.
Shorter. Encyc. Islam (Umma)
Peters. Allah's Commonwealth: pp. 61-63 (Ummah)
Rosenthal. Political thought in Medieval Islam, 1962: p. 22ff (Umma)